John Regan
DevOps Engineer at Exelon
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolJohn Regan is a DevOps engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient infrastructure and developer tooling across enterprise and research environments in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. He combines pragmatic system administration (Mesonet CI, real-time notifications, hot-backup planning) with hands-on DevOps at Exelon, focusing on reliability, automation, and practical solutions for edge cases. An active open-source contributor, he has modernized Qt-based projects, improved media playback in the widely used hls.js library (adding FLAC/Opus and ID3 handling), and enhanced streaming/chat platforms like Owncast. Laid-back but punctual, he prefers meaningful work that benefits others and brings a curious, experimental approach to testing new technologies and standardizing infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of North FloridaUniversity of Florida
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Github Skills (45)
javascript10
c-language10
qt10
meta10
typescript10
audio-processing10
metadata10
filetype10
file-conversion10
360-video10
file-operations10
file-format10
chat10
php10
go10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD
Sep 2017 - May 2021
Music Player Daemon
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 15 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:John focused on enhancing the GME (Game Music Emu) plugin within the music player daemon. Their contributions included adding support for loading M3U sidecar files and implementing logic to handle file existence before loading to avoid data loss. They also addressed track numbering issues and added configurable fade-out times, improving the plugin's functionality and metadata handling. Additionally, the user added support for RSN files and enabled Ogg FLAC and Ogg chaining, thereby expanding the file format compatibility of the plugin.
audio-playermusic-player-daemonmpd-clientdaemonlinux
CDrummond/cantata
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Qt5 Graphical MPD Client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 8 days
Contributions summary:John's commits primarily focus on addressing deprecation warnings and modernizing the codebase within the Qt5 graphical MPD client. They've systematically replaced deprecated functions like `QString::SkipEmptyParts` with their current equivalents, `Qt::SkipEmptyParts`. The contributions also include updating to newer APIs and replacing deprecated calls such as `av_packet_init` and `QDateTime(QDate)`, indicating a focus on maintaining code compatibility and leveraging the latest features of the Qt framework. These changes help to ensure the software's stability and longevity.
graphicalmpd-clientqt5mpd
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